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P U B U C LAW 243-AUG. 8, 1953
"(b) I n the case of any person arriving in the United States who is not a returning resident thereof— "(1) wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, and similar personal effects; all the foregoing, if actually owned by and in the possession of such person abroad at the time of or prior to his departure for the United States, and if appropriate for his own personal use and intended only for such use and not for any other person nor for sale; "(2) automobiles, trailers, aircraft, motorcycles, bicycles, baby carriages, boats, horse-drawn conveyances, horses, and similar means of transportation, and the usual equipment accompanying the foregoing; any of the foregoing imported in connection with the arrival of such person and to be used in the United States only for the transportation of such person, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the conveyance; and "(3) not exceeding $200 in value of articles accompanying such a person who is in transit to a place outside United States customs territory and who will take the articles with him to such place. "(c) I n the case of any person arriving in the United States who is a returning resident thereof— "(1) all personal and household effects taken abroad by him or for his account and brought back by him or for his account; and "(2) articles (including not more than one wine gallon of alcoholic beverages and not more than one hundred cigars) acquired abroad as an incident of the journey from which he is returning, for his personal or household use, but not imported for the account of any other person nor intended for sale, if declared in accordance with regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, up to but not exceeding in aggregate value— " (A) $200, if such person arrives from a contiguous country which maintains a free zone or free port (see subparagraph (d)), or arrives from any other country after having remained beyond the territorial limits of the United States for a period of not less than forty-eight hours, and in either case has not claimed an exemption under this subdivision (A) within the thirty days immediately preceding his arrival; and " (B) $300 in addition, if such person has remained beyond the territorial limits of the United States for a period of not less than twelve days and has not claimed an exemption under this subdivision (B) within the six months immediately preceding his arrival. " (d) I n the case of persons arriving from a contiguous country which maintains a free zone or free port, if the Secretary of the Treasury deems it necessary in the public interest and to facilitate enforcement of the requirement that the exemption shall apply only to articles acquired as an incident of the foreign journey, he shall prescribe by regulation or instruction, the application of which may be restricted to one or more ports of entry, that the exemption authorized by subdivision (2)(A) of subparagraph (c) shall be allowed only to residents who have remained beyond the territorial limits of the United States for not less than a specified period, not to exceed twenty-four hours, and after the expiration of ninety days after the date of such regulation or instruction allowance of the said exemption shall be subject to the limitations so prescribed.
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